Staff Profiles

Professor Ken Peasnell

Director, Distinguished Professor

Accounting and Finance

The Management School
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YX

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Other affiliations: International Centre for Research in Accounting, The Work Foundation

Research Overview

Understanding the financial crisis and fixing the financial system. Usefulness of accounting data for equity valuation. The prudential control of financial institutions. Issues in financial reporting and financial statement analysis. Development of accounting thought.

Current Research

Market reaction to asset impairments by US banks. Asset reclassifications by European banks. Impact and usefulness of IFRS. Analysts' earnings forecasts and stock recommendations. Pension accounting. Measurement of financial performance. The conceptual framework for financial reporting.

Professional Role

Lancaster University committees: Professorial Pay Review Panel; Chairs and Readerships Committee

Current Teaching

Accounting PhD Seminar.

External Roles

Professorial Research Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Member, Accounting Standards Board's Academic Advisory Panel. 

Qualifications

DipBS, Sheffield, MSc, London, PhD, Lancaster, FCA

Selected publications

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Innovative credit easing

Big Innovation CentreThe Treasury could significantly boost lending to SMEs by adopting an innovative approach to credit easing. 

This is according to a new report, Credit where it's due, published on 28 November 2011, by Professor Ken Peasnell and Will Hutton for the Big Innovation Centre.

Books by Professor Ken Peasnell

Financial Reporting of Risk: Proposals for a Statement of Business Risk

Research Areas

  • Accounting and Finance
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